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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) found Richmond Public Schools noncompliant after denying a special needs student in-person learning. Back in September, 8th grader Micah Davis to get back in the classroom. COVID restrictions the year before forced his classes to move online. However, when Davis arrived at Binford Middle School, staff told his mom they couldn’...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A veterans advocacy group alleges records show Veterans Affairs personnel are trained to ignore a law passed to allow patients to seek civilian care under certain conditions including if they wait too long for an appointment. One page from a Concerned Veterans for America’s (CVA) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request offers guidance for a patient’s request made on Feb...

Healthcare-related employment laws became a prevalent topic in 2021—the year of the COVID-19 vaccination mandates. States and the federal government continued to adopt differing approaches on mandates affecting different categories of employers. There were also several non-COVID-19-related employment laws affecting the health care industry in 2021. This alert provides an overview of these law...

WGXA/ASHTON PACKER ATLANTA, Ga. (WGXA)-- Georgia lawmakers have been busy passing bipartisan bills for education and law enforcement. First, there’s SB 231, simply referred to as the “education pilot program.” It passed with only three "Nays." Led by Senator Jason Anavitarte from Dallas, this is a special program designed for adults who dropped out of high school. People between the ages of 2...

The Sixth Circuit has held that a contractual forum-selection clause in a franchise agreement was unenforceable because it violated state law. In Lakeside Surfaces, Inc. v. Cambria Company, LLC, Lakeside Surfaces, a stone countertop fabricator, entered into a franchise agreement with Cambria. Lakeside Surfaces agreed to buy stone pieces and products from Cambria, fabricate countertops from th...

SPRINGFIELD — Some were family members of a woman who 40 years ago was strangled, run over with a car and dumped in a remote area by her ex-boyfriend, who told a friend “she just wouldn’t die.” Some were family of a 70-year-old man who died in 2004 after his wife stabbed him 34 times. Still others were relatives of a bar owner also stabbed multiple times by a business rival and dumped in a ri...

This story was published by the Louisiana Illuminator. You can view the original story here. Louisiana Senate President Page Cortez and House Speaker Clay Schexnayder hired BakerHostetler law firm to provide “redistricting advice” for at least $10,000 per month for three months, according to a contract legislative staff provided Wednesday night in response to a public records request. If the ...

CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) — The medical cannabis bill poised to pass the South Carolina Senate would prioritize existing hemp farmers in the state for certifications to grow marijuana. Janel Ralph is the CEO of ReBotanicals, one of the first hemp farms in South Carolina. She got involved in the cannabis business because of her daughter, who has a rare, debilitating condition. “Modern medicine had f...

A new bill aims to expand protections of the Good Samaritan law that protects people from criminal charges when helping someone who is overdosing. AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - Maine’s legislature met Thursday afternoon ahead of Governor Janet Mills’ State of the State Address. Lawmakers and advocates used the opportunity to spotlight a new bill that would expand protections of the Good Samaritan l...

BOSTON (WWLP) – A ballot question giving people in Massachusetts more options when it comes to getting their cars repaired was passed in the November 2020 general election. Now, it’s at the center of a federal lawsuit. It’s known as the Right to Repair law. Right to Repair Law A Right to Repair Law was first passed by Massachusetts voters back in 2012. It allowed manufacturers and repair shop...